Megumi Tadokoro
Birthday:Dec 19
Age:15
Gender:Female
Blood Type:O
Height: 154 cm
Cuisine Style: Hospitality
Megumi is from a cold harbor town in the Tōhoku region and enrolled into Tōtosuki's junior high program hoping to be able to help her family's bed-and-breakfast the Shokei'en Inn. Because of her stage fright and shyness she performs poorly and causes her to rank at the bottom of her class.
It took her three months to pass Fumio Damidō's entrance exam into the Polar Star Dormitory. She temporarily camped out in the dormitory's barn until she passed the exam.
Megumi has long dark blue hair, her standard hairstyle is two braided pigtails, and wears a flower hairpin on the right side of her hair. She has yellow colored eyes and a petite body figure.
She wears a standard Tōtsuki uniform depending on the season. Her chef's uniform is a plain white chef's uniform, though she has also worn a long sleeved version from her first assignment until the end of the Friendship and Rapport Training Camp. During the Autumn Election, Megumi wore a short sleeved version. Most of her casual wear are simple blouses.
Megumi is clumsy and timid, thoughtful, kind and honest girl with polite manners. She is always looking out for others and is willing to assist them in any way she can. According to Gin Dōjima, Megumi's greatest gift is her warm hospitality as she cooks. She highly idolizes her mother.
lthough Megumi is a capable chef, she does not fare well under pressure because she has stage fright. Because she is intimidated very easily, she makes simple mistakes when she cooks, causing many of her classmates to see her as a weak student. She is quick to panic when something goes awry and tends to over think situations when under pressure or stress, such as repeatedly packing and unpacking a suitcase to make sure she packed something, even though she did not need to pack a suitcase in the first place.
Initially, she heavily relied on Sōma's creativity to pull them both through tough assignments both in the academy and at the Training Camp. After her first Shokugeki, Megumi's confidence grew tenfold. Although she still retains her tendencies to panic and overreact, she has more confidence and thus, her cooking skills have been put on full display in front of her previously skeptical classmates who were used to her failures. Unbeknownst to her, she managed to even impress Senzaemon Nakiri who was the only person to truly understand the true untapped potential that Megumi possesses after eating her ramen. Overall, Megumi still feels that she has more room to grow and finally knows what its like to have fun while cooking, eager to face new challenges in the future